I thought I would help the hubby out while he is out of
town. I am pretty certain that he will think I should have waited until he got
home! But really we went on vacation, had tons and tons of rain and then he had
to leave for business for who knows how long ……. And with that the grass grew
and grew and grew! I bet it was 10 feet tall in the back yard! Okay okay maybe
not THAT tall…pretty close to that thou ..… but I decided I would MOW! Yes
shocking I know as I am NOT the type who MOWS the yard! I do notice there are a
lot of women who DO like to MOW the yard and they do it quite well! That
however is NOT me!
I was very proud of myself that I got the mower out, and
even got it start! Ha- I can so do this! So I push the handle down and it fly’s
forward….whoooo it goes really fast! Okay so I notice it is NOT actually
cutting the 10 feet tall grass just making it flat, so I wiggle the knobs some,
there is a turtle and a rabbit so let’s go to turtle speed and take the bag off because I am sure that makes
a difference right? Humm still not working
right….I try my aunt she knows how to use a lawn mower and as luck would have
it she didn’t answer. So I had to break
down and call the hubby……”You’re doing what? Um okay well you see the lever and
the button that says blade…yeah push that down” Okay with a few more
instructions I am ready to try this again!
So I am really moving now the grass is actually getting
shorter, almost plow into the fence with is already on its last leg as it is,
haven’t really mastered turning around yet either so there are little …shall we
say divots in the ground where I had to turn around (I will blame it on the squirrels
burying things). Oh and I notice I
missed a spot here and there so I use the “vacuum maneuver” you know where you
see a spot you vacuum it….kinda a
crisscross pattern not really the straight line path the hubby does! So just as I am admiring my work and giggling
to myself about the reverse Mr. T Mohawk I have going on, thinking WOW good thing the hubby can’t see this……the
mower dies! Seriously?? Are you kidding….so I decide it needs gas – logical choice
so I open the shed back up and there are 2 gas cans knowing the hubby that
means it’s for 2 different things!!! Ughh
I need to call him again to find out about this now…… okay back in
business I now know that the little can
is for the weed eater and the blower…..ha ha as if I will be using those? Back to mowing I go…I finish up and it’s
pretty good for my first time (okay well really my second time ever but the
first my SIL was there and she actually knows how to do this). It is in need of
some serious weed eating so I take that contraption out of the shed…look it
over, wiggle a few switches, pull on the string and decide that the back yard
looks pretty darn good after all , stick it back into the shed and off to the
front yard I go to look it over.
I try pushing the mower into the rock path to get out front,
now I have grass everywhere from under the mower on to the stone...........I
pull it back up to the grass and decide I am not going to embarrass myself
trying to mow the front yard where the neighbors could actually see me and this
*&^%$# mower won’t budge anyway! Maybe I could go out tonight with night vision goggles and use the
scissors to cut the front yard ~ it’s not THAT big of space! And this video would be reason enough for me
to NOT be out in my front yard where people can see me or worse film me mowing!!
